Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . ^^ri^^ffaiU- and still more remarkableself-possession. At anyseason the Londoner ma\^occasionally see a Scots-man— sometimes aScotswoman — executingthe national dance in fullHighland costume. A painful sight, thoughit is one which never failsto attract coppers from. HOTTLK see a one-legged a p p i 1 y,such spec-tacles arer are. Thestreet reciter,n o t w i t h -standing thathis part is byno means anexacting one, does not seem to the Metropolis is not parti
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . ^^ri^^ffaiU- and still more remarkableself-possession. At anyseason the Londoner ma\^occasionally see a Scots-man— sometimes aScotswoman — executingthe national dance in fullHighland costume. A painful sight, thoughit is one which never failsto attract coppers from. HOTTLK see a one-legged a p p i 1 y,such spec-tacles arer are. Thestreet reciter,n o t w i t h -standing thathis part is byno means anexacting one, does not seem to the Metropolis is not partial torhetoricians. It is easier to understand why the boxing cat is a rarity. iVIen who eatpebbles, nails, broken glass, and similardelicacies are so numerous in London as tosuggest the reflection that their diet is quitenourishing! They resort to many devicesto attract a crowd, sometimescarrying a little table on whichthe feast is spread. A briefspeech, interlarded with a jokeor two, is repeated over andover again, until the onlookershave been excited to therequisite pitch of just as the great act isanticipated the hat, perhaps, ispassed round. This procedureis not, of course, always fol-lowed. As often as not theperformer trusts to the honourof his audience, and he isseldom disappointed. Thebottle-carrier is stricth- a com-bination of t
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